Missouri

Residents hoping to hold Missouri government unions accountable for members doing union work on the taxpayer dime—a practice known as “release time”—have little recourse because of loopholes in public records laws, according to a new report.

A Democratic Party caucus chairman who has speculated about Jewish involvement in the 9/11 terrorist attacks has launched a new political action committee dedicated to supporting “anti-Zionist” Muslim candidates who believe “the ‘war on terror’ is a hoax and that the official story of 9/11 is not true,” according to the group’s website.

A Democratic Party caucus chairman vying to become Missouri’s next secretary of state is a 9/11 Truther who has associated with a radical Muslim cleric and trafficked in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.

Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill (D., Mo.) voted yesterday for massive new regulations on the coal industry despite claims on her website that she is not afraid to buck the party line to protect her state’s coal-fired power plants.